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Beasts at bedtime : revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature / Liam Heneghan.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: 338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226431383 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.89282 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1009.5.E25 H46 2018
Contents:
On reading. Beasts at bedtime: reading about nature with children -- Doctor Dolittle and the question of reading -- Pastoral stories. The pastoral promise: and they all lived happily ever after -- The ecology of Pooh -- Peter Rabbit's brutal paradise -- In the garden of earthly delights -- Beyond the pool of darkness: the pastoral roots of Irish stories -- Wilderness stories. On the Mallard -- Where the wild things always were -- Wild and Grimm fairy tales: wilderness on the margins -- "Gollumgate": Tolkien and Ireland -- "I am in fact a hobbit": Tolkien as environmentalist -- The tin woodman's path of carnage through the Land of Oz -- Hunger and thirst in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games -- Children on wild islands. The why and the what of islands -- Archmage Ged, Merlin, and Harry Potter and the training of wizards and witches -- Is L. T. Meade the real author of Enid Blyton's famous five? -- Robinson Crusoe: now here's a cannibalism tale for every child -- On isles benevolent; on isles malevolent -- Urban stories. The urban wild -- The urban to rural gradient of children's stories: The happy prince -- Antipathy to urban life in nursery rhymes -- Urban decay: R. Crumb in the nursery -- The escape artist: Calvin and Hobbes and the suburban idyll -- Babar: elephant and urban adapter -- Learning to care. Caring for the rose: environmental literacy and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Tthe little prince -- What then should we do? the Lorax in the twenty-first century -- Good night, sleep tight. Bookend conversations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1009.5 .E25 H46 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001453686

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index.

On reading. Beasts at bedtime: reading about nature with children -- Doctor Dolittle and the question of reading -- Pastoral stories. The pastoral promise: and they all lived happily ever after -- The ecology of Pooh -- Peter Rabbit's brutal paradise -- In the garden of earthly delights -- Beyond the pool of darkness: the pastoral roots of Irish stories -- Wilderness stories. On the Mallard -- Where the wild things always were -- Wild and Grimm fairy tales: wilderness on the margins -- "Gollumgate": Tolkien and Ireland -- "I am in fact a hobbit": Tolkien as environmentalist -- The tin woodman's path of carnage through the Land of Oz -- Hunger and thirst in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games -- Children on wild islands. The why and the what of islands -- Archmage Ged, Merlin, and Harry Potter and the training of wizards and witches -- Is L. T. Meade the real author of Enid Blyton's famous five? -- Robinson Crusoe: now here's a cannibalism tale for every child -- On isles benevolent; on isles malevolent -- Urban stories. The urban wild -- The urban to rural gradient of children's stories: The happy prince -- Antipathy to urban life in nursery rhymes -- Urban decay: R. Crumb in the nursery -- The escape artist: Calvin and Hobbes and the suburban idyll -- Babar: elephant and urban adapter -- Learning to care. Caring for the rose: environmental literacy and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Tthe little prince -- What then should we do? the Lorax in the twenty-first century -- Good night, sleep tight. Bookend conversations.

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